Small Dreams of a Scorpion
by Milligan, Spike
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good Plus
- ISBN 10
- 0140035648
- ISBN 13
- 9780140035643
- Seller
-
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Penguin Books, 1974. -----# 012263 - The scan you see is the book you get. Soft cover (roughly) 7" by 4 1/2" (inches), tight clean square & true, flat uncreased spine, 89 pages, Very Good Plus condition with minor edge wear. "Spike Milligan had published volumes of humorous and children's poetry before the 1970s, but Small Dreams of a Scorpion is the first volume to feature some of his most personal and painful musings: partly on his own bouts of clinical depression and hospitalisation; partly about some of his darkest moments as a soldier in World War II; and also about some of the terrible moments of post-war world history and his reactions to them - the Korean and Vietnam conflicts, the Aberfan school disaster and the assassination of Robert Kennedy." Check out the scans. . 2nd Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good Plus. Illus. by Cover photo by Dennis Rolfe; Illustrations by Spike & Laura Milligan;. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Nessa Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012263
- Title
- Small Dreams of a Scorpion
- Author
- Milligan, Spike
- Illustrator
- Cover photo by Dennis Rolfe; Illustrations by Spike & Laura Milligan;
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Plus
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 2nd Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0140035648
- ISBN 13
- 9780140035643
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1974
- Size
- 12mo - over 6�" - 7�" tall
- Keywords
- Milligan, Spike Small Dreams of a Scorpion Cover photo by Dennis Rolfe; Illustrations by Spike & Laura Milligan; Penguin Books 0140035648 "Spike Milligan had published volumes of humorous and children's poetry before the 1970s, but Sma
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry; Art & Artists; Humor;
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Glossary
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....